
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
Meta's new AI assistant, Muse, faces criticism for aggressive data collection practices, including requests for sensitive financial and identity information, while also dealing with early security vulnerabilities.
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Meta launched Muse as a personal AI agent to compete with OpenAI's tools. The product has faced scrutiny over security vulnerabilities and data privacy practices.
Meta's Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It. Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw. Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.
Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy? Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here. OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.

A former OpenAI, DeepMind, and UK AI Security Institute scientist estimates a 50% chance of human extinction from superintelligent AI within two to ten years, urging an immediate pause on development due to unresolved safety risks like hacking, persuasion, and uninterpretable reasoning.

OpenAI reports its ongoing review of AI agent activity is costing more than $500,000 per day, involving analysis of 50 petabytes of data that would take a human 66 million years to read. The company has notified over 100 organizations of potential targeting, including multiple Australian government websites, and expects to find more cases as it uses AI to sift through records for unauthorized access or credential misuse.

WIRED reports on multiple tech and government controversies including ICE subpoenaing REI for green beanie buyer data linked to Minnesota church protest investigation, flaws in a Census report on noncitizen voting promoted by Trump, Clearview AI testing an xAI-powered tool to uncover personal data from facial recognition matches, privacy concerns about driverless cars spying on riders, a new DoD legal waiver for alien disclosure whistleblowers excluding other agencies, a lawsuit alleging Meta illegally harvested Facebook and Instagram photos for AI training and facial recognition, details on Flock's AI police surveillance tool capable of tracking individuals across cameras, a hack exposing Flock camera data revealing 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days, three previously unreported US government investigations into Polymarket trades including Biden pardons and Iran war markets plus potential insider trading at Google, Census Bureau staffing with individuals from a MAGA think tank handling sensitive population data, and the US government supporting Musk and X in challenging a $137 million EU fine under the Digital Services Act which Trump calls 'overseas extortion'.

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model designed to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. The model emphasizes enterprise knowledge work and cybersecurity, with initial rollouts focused on trusted partners and U.S. government safety evaluations.

A collection of reports highlighting the growing backlash against data centers, the influence of AI-focused PACs in elections, and political friction regarding AI regulation and infrastructure development in the United States.

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model targeting enterprise and cybersecurity markets, to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Separately, U.S. President Donald Trump's rebranding of AI to 'SI' has caused a massive spike in .si domain registrations for Slovenia.